The Springfield Times: Season 2 DVD Set

This document lists archived official news, as well as some unconfirmed rumors, regarding
The Complete Second Season DVD set.
Some information on other Simpsons DVD titles released in Europe and Australia at the time is also archived here.

Go to the Language Selection menu of "Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish" and select Blinky.
You'll get an animated thank you note for David Silverman.

Disc 3

Go to the Language Selection menu of "Bart's Dog Gets an F" and select the piece in his mouth.
You'll get a sketch. On this sketch, select the head on the right for yet another sketch.

Go to the main menu of "Old Money" and move left to select Grampa's fez. You'll get a sketch.

Go to the Language Selection menu of "Brush with Greatness" and select the painting. You'll get a sketch.

Disc 4

Go to the Language Selection menu of "Three Men and a Comic Book" and select the paper slip the Comic Book Guy
is holding. You'll get a sketch.

Go to the Language Selection of "Blood Feud" and select the eyes of the Olmec's head. You'll get Homer lay-out
sketches. If you select the post-it note, you'll get more.

Go to the storyboards for "Bart gets an F" in the Special Features section. Move until you reach page where
the panel on the right is covered with a post-it note. Go to that post-it note. You'll get to see the
storyboard for a deleted scene in that episode.

All the Easter egg items hidden in the Language Selection menus can be reached by moving the cursor over "More" and then
pressing the right arrow key (+enter).Thanks to
Matty Jorissen

June 30, 2002

The Complete Second Season is now
available in a few European countries such as France and Finland. Following the releases, reviews of the set are
popping up on various DVD sites.

The four-disc set includes all episodes on dual-layered discs (full frame, aspect ratio 1.33:1).
Each episode is presented with English 5.1 Surround, English Dolby Surround, French Dolby Surround Sound and
Spanish subtitles.

The owner of The Simpsons Park
web site has managed to get details on the upcoming Complete Second Season boxed set.
Although the details describe the French edition of the set, apart from the language selection,
the release will most likely be nearly identical in all regions.

According to the info, the French edition will take the form of 4 dual-layered
DVD discs (1.33:1 full frame), each with episodes presented in French and
English 5.1. & 2.0. and French 2.0. Subtitles in English and Spanish will also be available.

"The Simpsons Backstage Pass" will be released in Finland on April 26.

December 20, 2001

"The Simpsons Film Festival"
will also be released in the UK, on March 18. Also, another single-disc
release called
"The Simpsons: Backstage Pass"
(previously entitled The Simpsons Music Themes) is scheduled for a June release, following
the season 2 boxed set release on May 20. See below for details on these two single-disc items.

December 13, 2001

A themed DVD entitled
"The Simpsons: Film Festival"
will be released in region 4 on February 13.
The single disc will contain four episodes:

Additionally, "Troy McClure's Finest Moments" montage is included as a special feature.

Finally, according to a post at The No Homers Club, DVD Debate site
also posted information suggesting that the season 2 set would be released in the UK on May 20. However, the piece
of news was removed from the site, and its reliability remains questionable.Source:
DVD Debate

December 8, 2001

In the UK, the next DVD release (R2) is a single-disc title called
"The Simpsons Music Themes." Similar to the themed British VHS titles,
the DVD will feature four episodes:

An extra montage of clips called "Otto's Finest Moments" (2m:24s) is also included. No release date is yet available.Information and image courtesy of
DVD Times

Note that this release does not mean the end for the boxed season sets. Season 2 DVD set is in the works and will hit
the stores worldwide during the first half of 2002, although not likely before May.

October 31, 2001

Entertainment Weekly has an article on The Simpsons DVDs:

Good news for all the "Simpsons" lovers who've snapped up copies of the first-season DVD
box set like Homer on the loose in a Krispy Kreme shop: There's more on the way. The comic
minds behind the 12-year-old 'toon, including series creator Matt Groening, have already l
aid down commentary tracks (Mmmm, commentaries!) for a planned season 2 release, due sometime
next year.

And it's likely that every season will get the same deluxe treatment, according to executive
producer and show-runner Al Jean, who's been on staff with "The Simpsons" since the beginning.
"It's not like they're gonna leave an extra nickel on the floor in this place," he tells EW.com.
Source:
Entertainment Weekly
(Courtesy Tobias Klette)

The BBFC database contains a new entry that
is possibly a special feature for the season 2 DVD set, but more likely
additional material for a VHS video to be released in the UK.

Update (12/08): The feature is a part of The Simpsons Music Theme R2 release. (see above for details)

Otto's Words of Wisdom (2m:24s)

Thanks to Jan Nielsen

October 23, 2001

There's still no official word on the release of the season 2 DVD boxed set.
Fox Home Entertainment was originally aiming for a Christmas release, but
today it seems unlikely. However, according to their plan to release two sets a
year it should be out within 6 months.

Unofficial discussions with people promoting the Simpsons DVD sets in Canada suggest that
May or June is the likely date.